| Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh Contributor(s): Wilce, James M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195106873 ISBN-13: 9780195106879 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $222.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1998 Annotation: Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, lament in particular. The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach to troubles talk, combining the rigor of discourse analysis with the interpretive depth of psychological anthropology. Its careful transcriptions of Bangladeshi troubles talk will disturb some readers and move others--beyond past academic discussion of personhood in South Asia. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics |
| Dewey: 306.440 |
| LCCN: 98018338 |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.4" W x 9.36" (1.58 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Demographic Orientation - Rural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, lament in particular. The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach to troubles talk, combining the rigor of discourse analysis with the interpretive depth of psychological anthropology. Its careful transcriptions of Bangladeshi troubles talk will disturb some readers and move others--beyond past academic discussion of personhood in South Asia. |
